Category: Golf

• PGA Tour adds Miami Championship at Trump Doral

• First Tour event at Trump venue since 2016 split

• Event part of crowded spring with majors, big purses

The PGA Tour will return to Donald Trump’s Blue Monster course in Miami next spring, ending a decade-long absence from Trump-owned venues.

The Miami Championship, a $20m Signature Event scheduled for the first weekend in May 2026, will mark the 56th time the Tour has played at Trump National Doral but the first since 2016, the year Trump won his first US presidential election. That year, the WGC-Cadillac Championship was pulled from the resort and relocated to Mexico City after Cadillac ended its sponsorship.

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• MacIntyre never recovers after bogeys on first two holes

• Scheffler has five PGA titles for second year in a row

Bob MacIntyre blew a four-shot lead in the final round as the world No 1, Scottie Scheffler, produced a moment of magic to clinch victory at the BMW Championship in Maryland. MacIntyre’s big overnight advantage was whittled to a single stroke after he started Sunday with two bogeys and, despite a gallant effort, he could do nothing to quell the American’s momentum.

Back within touching distance with two to play, MacIntyre watched as Scheffler nailed a remarkable chip from the rough to in effect confirm his victory on the penultimate hole. It was hard to take for MacIntyre, who had produced his own memorable moment on the final hole on Saturday when he sunk a 41ft putt to retain his significant advantage.

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Captain Luke Donald could be able to keep changes from victorious 2023 team to an absolute minimum at Bethpage

If continuity is key to Ryder Cup success, even the phlegmatic Luke Donald must be doing cartwheels. This also applies to those who believe the occasional away win is necessary if the event is to remain within the realms of serious sporting contest. The European class of 2025 is now very close to replicating the one that won in Rome in 2023, but with one quirk; Rasmus Højgaard replacing his twin brother, Nicolai. What the United States would give for such a settled scenario.

Should Donald be so minded, he can keep change to an absolute minimum. Recreating a winning environment becomes so much easier when the characters involved are the same. When Europe slumped to comprehensive defeat at Whistling Straits four years ago, seven of the 12-man team were sampling an American Ryder Cup for the first time. At Hazeltine, in 2016, half of Darren Clarke’s European contingent were debutants. The US again won with ease.

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• Run of late birdies sets up Rose’s victory in Memphis

• At 45 is oldest European to win on PGA Tour in modern era

Justin Rose produced a sensational finish at the FedEx St Jude Championship with six birdies in his last final eight holes to win a playoff against the US Open champion JJ Spaun.

The English golfer, who at 45 became the oldest European to win on the PGA Tour in the modern era, looked out of it after a bogey at the 12th dropped him to 12 under. That left Rose two off the pace with Tommy Fleetwood, the world No 1 Scottie Scheffler and Spaun ahead of him.

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• Miyū Yamashita holds off Charley Hull’s spirited charge at Royal Porthcawl

• Rhodes scores hole-in-one as ball goes in-off snooker style

• Official leaderboard

An opening bogey for Andrea Lee. Then the final pairing take to the course, with Kim A-lim and Miyū Yamashita parring the opening hole. Suddenly there’s a little bit of separation at the top of the leaderboard. Meanwhile Kim Sei-young rapidly undoes exactly half of all her good work on the front nine, with double bogey at 10. She slips back to -4, and that’s golf in a nutshell.

-9: Yamashita (1)
-8: AL Kim (1)
-6: Hull (2), Khang (2)

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• Woods shoots 74, drops from second to ninth

• Three bogeys, double doom Ryder Cup hopes

• Esterline wins with 19-under; Puebla second

Charlie Woods dropped into a tie for ninth on the final day of the Junior PGA Championship, which took him out of the running for a qualifying spot for the US Junior Ryder Cup team on Friday.

The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods shot back-to-back 66s in the second and third rounds at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind., and was tied for second place entering the final round.

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• Woods tied for second at 12-under entering final round

• Teen shot third-round 66 with nine birdies, four bogeys

• Top two finishers earn Junior Ryder Cup automatic bids

Charlie Woods is in a strong position to earn a spot on the US Junior Ryder Cup team as he enters the final round of the Junior PGA Championships in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods is tied for second place at 12-under-par 202 after shooting a 5-under 66 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex’s Ackerman-Allen Course on Thursday.

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US president has championed his course Turnberry to stage world’s oldest major but hosting Scottish Open is more realistic

Even a cursory glance towards the scale of this year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush emphasised why ongoing and occasionally fevered chatter about Turnberry staging the world’s oldest major is futile. Whether the Turnberry owner was Donald Trump or Donald Duck, its lack of adjacent infrastructure makes it unfit for the Open. The Ayrshire venue, lauded again by its owner Trump during a visit in recent days, is simply incapable of hosting the Open in its present form.

This need not be an uncomfortable reality for the US president, who can secure at least a portion of the profile and kudos he desires for Turnberry – one of the world’s most outstanding golf courses – from an alternative source. It would, in fact, now be a surprise if Turnberry does not appear on the Scottish Open’s rota at some point soon. Mutual convenience is staring us all in the face if Trump can even temporarily accept a prize which sits in the shadow of the championship he has craved since buying Turnberry in 2014.

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Our award-winning photographer has been at Royal Portrush for the Open. Here are some of his best shots as Scottie Scheffler claimed a fourth major triumph with a dominant four-shot victory, completing a third leg of the career grand slam

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• Scottie Scheffler claims his fourth major with victory at Royal Portrush in the 153rd Open

• Official leaderboard

Rory McIlroy is out and about, soundtracked by the usual ozone-layer-bothering roars. An iron straight down the middle. An approach straight down the middle and over the flag. He’ll have a 20-foot putt coming back for birdie. Matt Fitzpatrick has some work to do, though, having dispatched his tee shot into the rough down the left, then sent a flyer over the back of the green. Meanwhile Hideki Matsuyama’s eagle putt at 12 shaves the hole, Tyrrell Hatton’s bunkered tee shot at 2 leads to bogey, and here’s how the top of the leaderboard looks right now.

-14: Scheffler
-10: Li
-9: Fitzpatrick
-8: Matsuyama (12), R Hojgaard (3), Hatton (2), English (1), Gotterup (1), McIlroy
-7: DeChambeau (13), Fleetwood (11), Hall (7), MacIntyre (3), Henley (3), Schauffele (2)

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